Wed 12 Aug 2009
Armadillo burrow
This is the hole that the same armadillo keeps burrowing under our backyard palm trees every few months. This has been going on for two years now. I fill in the hole, and he burrows it out again a couple months later. Got any ideas how to stop him from burrowing here, short of calling a professional pest remover?
August 12th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
A baseball bat.
August 15th, 2009 at 10:15 am
Hey, do you know why the chicken crossed the road?
To prove to the armadillo that it could be done…
So if the armadillo isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer……..
August 22nd, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Can’t top the chicken crossing the road one!
Have you tried “critter ridder” or some similar pepper based powder? Or, if not that, something else that is repulsive to armadillos?
I’m from the north, so for all I know nothing is repulsive to them…. but I thought I would ask anyway.
Good luck!
Song of Solomon 2:15 “catch for us the little armadillos…er, foxes…”
August 28th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
I filled an armadillo hole with dirt and then covered it with several inches of gravel. That has worked for 4 months so far.
I tried various peppers and that didn’t work.
September 11th, 2009 at 4:37 am
You can also try “human hair”, which Army thinks is the hair of a “large predator.” I have heard that works. As well as possibly dog or human urine, marking their territory.
September 11th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Recognize the stronger species and call it a day
January 12th, 2010 at 1:32 pm
At this point I think we have the problem solved. We filled the hole with dirt that was mixed with moth balls. On top of the dirt we laid bricks. After about two months there has been no sign of digging – there. I noticed another burrow had been started in another part of the yard. D’oh!